Brazilian Formosa: A dream

Last night I had an alternate history dream. In this dream, I was making a history of Brazilian Formosa. I think this is less implausible than it seems, as Brazilian Formosa in the dream was originally a Portuguese Colony (which I think is totally possible, though I'm not well versed in the history of that area), which Brazil than took over after independence. The tricky part here is that I think this necessitates a Pacific port for Brazil, and I'm not sure how this can come about. Finally in the dream, Brazilian Formosa expanded during some kind of global conflict in the *early 20th century to include large parts of South China, but a Chinese Nationalist movement retook the mainland, leaving Chinese Formosa as the last bastion of Brazilian Chinese involvement.

Also, they had excellent food.
 
Last night I had an alternate history dream. In this dream, I was making a history of Brazilian Formosa. I think this is less implausible than it seems, as Brazilian Formosa in the dream was originally a Portuguese Colony (which I think is totally possible, though I'm not well versed in the history of that area), which Brazil than took over after independence. The tricky part here is that I think this necessitates a Pacific port for Brazil, and I'm not sure how this can come about. Finally in the dream, Brazilian Formosa expanded during some kind of global conflict in the *early 20th century to include large parts of South China, but a Chinese Nationalist movement retook the mainland, leaving Chinese Formosa as the last bastion of Brazilian Chinese involvement.

Also, they had excellent food.

That was my idea as well..I daydreamed of Iberia of Miguel da Paz taking Taiwan and later Fujian while the Ming is in crisis and Japan got the North-Eastern China as the Ming-Yamato or Second Qin Dynasty and Guangxi and Guangdong go to Vietnam and Yunnan goes to the Kingdom of Toungoo, Sichuan is partitioned between Kingdom of Toungoo/Burma, Tibet and the Ming-Yamato dynasty.
 
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I will be looking forward to this. If you do a timeline, make sure to parody the timeline title off another timeline because it's funny to do that.
 
The Chinese can apply their own delicious cuisine to the fine Brazilian arts of making awesome steaks!

Not entirely plausible, I'm afraid. Formosa's a bit small for introducing and supporting a population of grazing cattle, and the animals would be more efficient at food production if used to plow fields and that sort of thing. That's why up until the 20th century, average Taiwanese (and even mainland) cuisine was rather sparse in the beef department. Only the wealthy could afford to raise cows for the express purpose of killing them for meat.
 
The Chinese can apply their own delicious cuisine to the fine Brazilian arts of making awesome steaks!

The people there at the time that the portuguese would be able to colonize Taiwan are not Chinese and was sparsely populated, Taiwan could end up like a cross between Brazil and Australia
 
Last night I had an alternate history dream. In this dream, I was making a history of Brazilian Formosa. I think this is less implausible than it seems, as Brazilian Formosa in the dream was originally a Portuguese Colony (which I think is totally possible, though I'm not well versed in the history of that area), which Brazil than took over after independence. The tricky part here is that I think this necessitates a Pacific port for Brazil, and I'm not sure how this can come about. Finally in the dream, Brazilian Formosa expanded during some kind of global conflict in the *early 20th century to include large parts of South China, but a Chinese Nationalist movement retook the mainland, leaving Chinese Formosa as the last bastion of Brazilian Chinese involvement.

Also, they had excellent food.
How are the brazilian rebels going to take formoza while they are a)not in the right side of america
b)they have the whole fouking pacific ocean
c) they had some trabels to control all of brazil in the first place
but still, the idea sonds coll
 
How are the brazilian rebels going to take formoza while they are a)not in the right side of america
b)they have the whole fouking pacific ocean
c) they had some trabels to control all of brazil in the first place
but still, the idea sonds coll

They need to control the Incas first.
 
The tricky part here is that I think this necessitates a Pacific port for Brazil, and I'm not sure how this can come about.

Could Brazil colonize Tierra del Fuego? The Spanish never did, and it took some time for Argentina and Chile to get their act together.
 
Could Brazil colonize Tierra del Fuego? The Spanish never did, and it took some time for Argentina and Chile to get their act together.

Hey, that's actually a pretty interesting idea! The entirety of Patagonia remained untouched due to the hosility of the natives (I think). But is Brazil's navy good enough for this?
 
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